On a Ubuntu web server [LAMP], I'm trying to get PHP errors to write into a php_error file, but no matter what I do, they keep going to the apache log.
Here's what I have tried/done:
Edited the php.ini file:
Restarted Apache
Checked the phpinfo() output to verify that the changes I made to the php.ini file took -- they did.
After verifying that the errors were still going to the Apache log, I physically created the php_errors.log and tried again. Still going to the Apache log!
Rebooted the web server! Still...!
Anybody have a solution?
It had to do with ownership. One or the other has worked [for reasons that are not clear to me]:
chown www-data:www-data /var/log/php_error.log
chown same-user-as-www-home:same-user-as-web-home /var/log/php_error.log
Also, the following has made a difference:
chmod 664 /var/log/php_error.log
[as opposed to chmod 644...again for reasons that are not clear to me]
Check the directory permissions for /var/log. Ensure that the user your Web service is running as has write permissions to that folder. Alternatively, create a subfolder (/var/log/phplogs?) and assign explicit permissions on that for the user in question then change the error_log value to be a file in that folder